ENG 541 - Writing Personal Legend

Institution:

Chatham University

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Description:

This writing class will use as inspiration self-representation by contemporary women authors who have written on the scrim of legend, myth, and folklore. The telling of tales is central to community interaction; story has always been used as a way, direct and indirect, of making culturally specific meaning out of experience. As such, it is a particularly dynamic record of encounters and influences both among and within groups. The focus of this class will be upon uses of new points of view and of speaking personae that revise earlier versions of the familiar and thus destablize meaning through illusions of maintaining heirloom metaphor. Students will read archival and contemporary material and then select traditional and modern stories resonant of their private experiences to generate original work.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

Notes:

ENG541

Additional Information:

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Institution Website:

www.chatham.edu

Phone Number:

(412) 365-1100

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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